Nicholson v. Kingery’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 1985
2 district · 16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Wainwright v. P. H. & F. M. Roots Co. · State v. Miller · Smith-Dimmick Lumber Co. v. Teague, Barnett & Co. · Talbott v. Leatherbury · Simon v. Ellison
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * [I]f upon a careful scrutiny of the record it appears to a court of equity that the director has been open, fair and honest in his dealings with the corporation, and has secured no advantage by his contract to the detriment of the corporation it will be upheld. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lynch v. Patterson
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.